Week in Review: Dr. Gabor Mate: Judging the Addict

In his new book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Dr. Gabor Maté explains the lessons he’s learned in a long career of working with addicts. He draws the connections between drug addiction, stress, and other addictive behaviors, whether they be workaholism or compulsive shopping.

Dr. Maté joined us recently to talk about the way our society adds to our stresses, creates addictions, and then punishes people for their problems, and the best way to actually help people break out of the cycle of addictive behavior.
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Gabor Maté
Stress Physician
“This is a man who will not keep silent about his multiple passions,” says January Magazine of Dr. Gabor Maté, a Vancouver physician and author of the best-selling book about attention deficit disorder, Scattered Minds (2000).

Maté is also the author of When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2003), in which he argues that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness.

A family physician for over 20 years, Maté is a palliative care specialist and a psychotherapist as well as a staff physician at a facility for street people in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. He was a long-time columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail.
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Webcast of the March 12, 2008 book launch of Dr. Gabor Maté's new book, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction", at St. Andrew's Wesley church, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The event, sponsored by Necessary Voices Society, was a fundraiser for the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre and Aboriginal Mother Centre.

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In this new book, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours

For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté's patients are at the far end of the spectrum, there are many others among us who are also struggling with addictions. more

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Addiction & Brain Development with Gabor Mate

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For over ten years Gabor Mate has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV, and in many cases all four. But if Dr. Mate's patients are at the end of the spectrum, there are many others among us who are also struggling with addictions. drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, compulsive work habits, sexual seeking or spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our spirits?

Gabor Mate M.D. is the author of the bestselling books Scattered Minds, When the Body Says No and now In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Close Encounters With Addiction
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Interview - Dr. Gabor Mate - Close Encounters with Addiction

Interview with Dr. Gabor Mate author of "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction" recorded January 16, 2010 in Seattle. For more info: http://www.drgabormate.com/

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

In this new book, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours

For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté's patients are at the far end of the spectrum, there are many others among us who are also struggling with addictions. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling and excessive inappropriate spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our lives?

Beginning with a dramatically close view of his drug addicted patients, Dr. Maté looks at his own history of compulsive behaviour. He weaves the stories of real people who have struggled with addiction with the latest research on addiction and the brain. Providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting edge scientific findings, Dr. Maté sheds light on this most puzzling of human frailties. He proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and, for the many behaviour addicts among us, to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. http://www.drgabormate.com/ghosts.php

Dr. Gabor Maté: “When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection”

The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption–that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill patients at the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, where he was the Medical Coordinator for seven years, Dr. Gabor Mate makes the case that there are important links between the mind and the immune system. He found that stress and individual emotional makeup play critical roles in an array of diseases.

When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between emotion, stress, and disease. The book combines a fascinating yet down-to-earth explanation of the scientific research that has demonstrated the mind/body unity with the stories and experiences of actual people. Some of them are famous, like the athlete Lance Armstrong, the comedian Gilda Radner, or the former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Most of them are ordinary people from all walks of life who open up about their lives in a way they had never done before. The end result is a dramatic and compelling account of the interplay between the external and internal environments we inhabit and how these environments affect us in health and illness.

When The Body Says No explains that chronic diseases – including many cancers, multiple sclerosis, scleroderma, fibromyaglia, ALS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Alzheimer’s, and many others – can be viewed as expressions of a particular emotional history. In people whose lives are marked by suppressed emotions and excessive, unacknowledged stress, the body can become confused, even to the point of turning on itself. Drawing on a wide range of scientific research, Dr. Maté illuminates the cross-communications between the body’s emotional, nervous, hormonal, and immune systems, and how breakdowns in this interactive system can have major impacts on our health.

Dr. Maté shows that physical disease cannot be properly understood or addressed without taking into account the emotional context in which it arises. The book demonstrates vividly how our interactions with our environment shape our internal world from an early age, and how that world in turn manifests itself physically in our bodies.

When The Body Says No is written for anyone interested in understanding the links between mind and body, emotions and health, stress and disease. People who suffer from chronic illness will gain a clearer understanding of themselves and their conditions, and with that understanding, new hope for recovery and well-being. Their friends and families will also benefit greatly from Dr. Maté’s compassion and insights.

Health professionals will appreciate Dr. Maté’s synthesis of the latest research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, and his views on the need for a ‘mindbody’ approach to medicine. When The Body Says No will leave them able to listen more powerfully to those they treat, and to better promote health and healing in all their patients.

When The Body Says No will appeal to all readers interested in the most profound issues of health and illness, or in getting a second opinion on the usefulness of the standard Western medical model. Virtually anyone wishing to be present to their own emotional life will gain enriched self-understanding out of reading this book.
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